For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, construction
and operation of housing projects located within their respective territorial
boundaries, the State, its subdivisions and agencies, and any county, city or
municipality of the State may, upon such terms, with or without considerations
as it may determine:

(1) Dedicate, release, sell, convey, or lease any of its
interest in any property, or grant easements, licenses or any other rights or
privileges therein to a housing authority or the United States of America or
any agency thereof;

(2) Cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community,
educational, water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other works, which it
is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in
connection with housing projects;

(4) Plan or replan, zone, or rezone; make exceptions from
building regulations and ordinances; any city or town also may change its map;

(5) Cause services to be furnished to the housing authority of
the character which it is otherwise empowered to furnish;

(6) Enter into agreements with respect to the exercise by it of
its powers relating to the repair, closing or demolition of unsafe, insanitary
or unfit dwellings;

(7) Enter into agreements (which may extend over any period, notwithstanding
any provision or rule of law to the contrary) with a housing authority
respecting action to be taken pursuant to any of the powers granted by this
Article. Any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding, any sale,
conveyance, lease or agreement provided for in this section may be made by the
State, a city, county, municipality, subdivision or agency of the State without
appraisal, public notice, advertisement or public bidding.

(8) With respect to any housing project which a housing authority
has acquired or taken over from the United States of America or any agency
thereof and which the housing authority by resolution has found and declared to
have been constructed in a manner that will promote the public interest and
afford necessary safety, sanitation and other protection, no city or county
shall require any changes to be made in the housing project or the manner of
its construction or take any other action relating to such construction. (1935, c. 408, s. 3; 1939, c. 137.)